Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 42,753, Bernard Gordon, New Jersey

SERVICE
NUMBER
New Jersey
★ Gordon, Bernard or Bernadus Gordan or Bernard
S. 42,753
CONTENTS

42 753
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Revy INVALID.
File No. 42 753 * Dr Rymadus Gordon Bernard Gordon Rev Rev Rev
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 8, Page 201
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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* W.D.S. Aug. 12, 07.

New York. Ohio Bernard (or Burnadus) Gordon, Jefferson County, Ohio, 1783
Private in Col. Spencer's reg. New-Jersey line, 1777-83
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of New-York, at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 21. of August, 1820.
Certificate of Pension issued the 13. of Oct. 1820 and sent to Ephraim Root, agent, Steubenville, Ohio.
Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1820. $: 3.90.
Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4. March, 1821. 48 "
Omo. 11 } 1821. $: 51.90. 31. } & 4/30. }
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818 }
and 1 st May, 1820. }
63 Jefferson
Dead -
Died Dec. 24, 1820 per a B. 21 Dec 190

17,465. Bernard Gordon, Jefferson County, Ohio 21 st August 1820.
Col: Spencer's regimt. New-Jersey line, 1777. to 1783.
found on the rolls, under the name of Burnadus Gordon.
No property.
Ephraim Root, agent, Steubenville, Ohio, 2 d Oct r . 1820.

State of Ohio Jefferson County B. Court of Common Pleas —
In the matter of — Be it remembered that at the August Term of Barnard Gordon — the Court in the year of our Lord one thousand Revolutionary Pensioner eight hundred and twenty Barnard Gordon & Revolutionary pensioner comes into Court & files a Declaration of his services &c. in the words & figures following, to wit On the 21 st day of August A.D. 1820, personally appeared in open Court being a Court of Record for said County Barnard Gordon aged sixty three years resident in said County who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following Decla- ration in order to obtain the pension made by the act of Congress of the 18 th of March 1818. and the first of May 1820. that he the said Barnard Gordon enlisted for the term of the war or during the war in the Spring of the year 1777 in the State of New Jersey in the Company commanded by Captain John Mansfield in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Spencer in the line of the State of New Jersey on the fifth of the Continental establishment That he continued to serve in the said corps until the end of the war A.D. 1783. when he was discharged from the service at Morristown in the State of New York by General Washington; That he was engaged in the Battle of Brandywine. Germantown, Mon- mouth, Short Hills &c. and that he has lost his discharge by accident; And in pursuance of the act of the 18 th May 1820. I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18 th day of March 1818. and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it, as to bring myself within the pro- vision of an act act of Congress entitled an to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary war passed on the eighteenth day of March 1818 & that I have not by gift sale nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities, con- -tracts or debts due to me, nor have I any income at all, nor any property other than the cloths on my back. My occupation was that of a farmer but from a stroke of the palsy I am unable to walk without assistance & can hardly speak —

I live with my son Peter Gordon aged twenty eight years who has a wife and two small children, and it takes all his labor to support them.
Bernard his Gordon marks
Whereupon the said Bernard Gordon being sworn to the facts above stated and producing satisfactory evidence that the aforesaid Declaration is full and that the said Bernard Gordon owns no property except the clothes on his back. Therefore it is ordered by the Court that the aforesaid Declaration & proceedings of be entered of record & certified by the Clerk of the Court to the War Department -
Attest John Patterson CLK
State of Ohio Jefferson County ss
I John Patterson Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the said County of Jefferson do certify that the foregoing oath is truly copied from the Records of said Court - And I do further certify that it is the opinion of the Court that the aforesaid Bernard Gordon has no property except the clothes now upon him -
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Steubenville this 23 d day of September A D 1820
John Patterson CLK
E Road Agend.